What is John Early Even Doing?

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Kyle drops an early holiday gift this week: an interview with beloved actor, comedian, writer, producer, director & singer, John Early! Kyle & John unwrap which core memory led to John’s career, his stoned Golden Retriever approach to creativity, a life-changing teenage trip to NYC, the tea on Tisch & his desire to play an ingenue, theater & Shakespeare, John’s flawless tribute to Showgirls, what it was like making Maddie’s Secret and Eternity, why Looney Tunes is a comedic cornerstone, and an ode to John’s masterful ability to create characters in a segment called, “Who Even Is That?”.

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Executive Producers: iHeart Media, Elvis Duran Podcast Network, and Full Picture Productions Executive Produced for Full Picture Productions by Desiree Gruber + Anne Walls Gordon

Produced by Ben Fingeret, Nora Faber, and Maia Mizrahi
Editing by Mikey Harmon and Nicholas Giuricich
Research by Kimberly Walls
Music by Yatta

Art by Danica Robinson

Additional GFX by Chris Olfers/The Southern Influence
Styling by Dot Bass

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:04.3	What are we even doing?
0:11.0	What are we even doing?
0:13.7	Hey, everyone.
0:15.2	What are we even doing?
0:16.8	The podcast where I sit down with creatives from all fields, actors, musicians, writers, comedians.
0:24.2	Dancers.
0:25.3	Dancers, lest we forget, very important.
0:29.5	And we talk about how they use social media, what their creative process is.
0:33.7	We get weird together in a good way.
0:35.4	And I want to welcome a very special guest, actor, musician,
0:41.3	comedian, dancer, dancer. Thank you. I've seen him dance. Thank you. I'm a dancer. Yes,
0:46.4	you are. Our very own B. John say, I think I'm pronouncing that correctly, social media.
0:51.1	Please welcome John Early to the podcast to our vast studio here.
0:56.0	Kyle, you have no idea how exciting this is for me.
1:00.0	I am thrilled.
1:01.0	This is such a thrill.
1:02.0	You are the creative flow that comes out of you is, because you're so present when I've
1:10.0	watched your work, you have that ability to stand in front of an audience and you're so present when I've watched your work.
1:11.0	You have that ability to stand in front of an audience and you're relaxed and you, it's not
1:16.8	like you have to wait for the next thing, but you allow the next thing to come.
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